American Government CLEP Exam | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest Updated
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In the House of Representatives, the _______ is the presiding officer and is usually
selected by the members of the majority party and functions as a leader of that party.
Choose on:
A. Head of the House
B. Commissioner
C. Speaker
D. Chief Legislator - C. Speaker
Social Security and Medicare are social welfare programs, also known as _________
programs.
Choose one:
A. Endowment
B. Assurance
C. Entitlement
D. Trust - C. Entitlement
The President will threaten his ability to ______ as a strategic move to get Congress to
further discuss and work on a proposed bill.
Choose one:
A. Interject
B. Filibuster
C. Veto
D. Parlay - C. Veto
_________ are groups consisting of Political Party members or Congress members for
the purpose of coordinating members' actions, choose group policy, or the nomination
of candidates for various offices.
Choose one:
A. Pluralists
B. Political Activists
C. Special Interest Groups
D. Caucuses - D. Caucuses
The ________ can implement a filibuster in order to delay the progress or completely
prevent a vote on a proposal needing to take place.
Choose one:
,A. State Legislature
B. House of Representatives
C. White House
D. Senate - D. Senate
The President receives exceptional fame for negotiating treaties with foreign
governments however, these treaties require the power of the _________ for
ratification.
Choose one:
A. Senate
B. Supreme Court
C. House of Representatives
D. Executive Committee - A. Senate
The United States Constitution grants power to the President to make treaties with the
"advice and consent" of two-thirds of the Senate however, the President also has the
ability to side step this by establishing _____________ with foreign governments.
Choose one:
A. Executive Privileges
B. Diplomatic Pacts
C. Foreign Pacts
D. Executive Agreements - D. Executive Agreements
The ______________ committee is responsible for deciding when a bill will come to the
House floor for discussion and debate.
Choose one:
A. Decision Making
B. House Rules
C. Congressional Oversight
D. Pending Bills - B. House Rules
When legislation is approved by Congress late in a session and that session ends prior
to the 10 days the President is given to approve or deny bills, the President has the
power to withhold any action on the bills and let them die from the lack of approval.
What is this scenario called?
Choose one:
A. Heckler's Veto
B. Executive Order
C. Pocket Veto
D. Filibuster - C. Pocket Veto
Although Congress can override a veto with ____ vote, they are rarely successful.
,Choose one:
A. 0.51
B. 0.8
C. 0.75
D. 2/3 - D. 2/3
_________ theory holds that political power and policy creation in society does not lie
with the electorate but is distributed among a wide number of competing groups that
give way to compromise.
Choose one:
A. Democratic
B. Group
C. Pluralist
D. Legislative - C. Pluralist
_________ mandates are regulations or conditions for receiving grants that impose
costs on state and local governments for which they are not reimbursed by the federal
government.
Choose one:
A. Unexecuted
B. Unfunded
C. Rider
D. Defunct - B. Unfunded
The _______________ are the charges brought against a President to initiate the
impeachment process.
Choose one:
A. Articles of Chief Executive Dismissal
B. Presidential Discharge Articles
C. Articles of Impeachment
D. Chief Violation Articles - C. Articles of Impeachment
The Founding Fathers of the United States favored ___________ in legislature. This is
apparent in how Congress was established where the upper house represents states
equally, and the lower house represents states by population.
Choose one:
A. Parliament
B. Bicameralism
C. Unicameralism
D. Federalism - B. Bicameralism
, The Presidentialist view is that the President has power and right in policy creation
whereas the __________ view is that the President has no power in policy creation.
Choose one:
A. Congressionalist
B. Democratic
C. Constitutionalist
D. Federalist - A. Congressionalist
The 24th Amendment ratified in 1964 outlawed what was known as the ______, a fee to
vote in federal elections.
Choose one:
A. Lay Subsidy
B. Proportional Tax
C. Grandfather Levy
D. Poll Tax - D. Poll Tax
The answer is D, Poll Tax. The Poll tax was essentially a discrimination tax enacted
following the Fifteenth Amendment which extended the right to vote to all races. Many
Southern states made use of these taxes, but included a grandfather clause that
exempted any adult male whose father or grandfather who had once voted. These taxes
largely disenfranchised the African Americans.
The term _________ describes the right of a person to not be imprisoned without a trial,
a jury, a proper defense, with the protection of his or her civil rights and property.
Choose one:
A. Due Process
B. Habeas Corpus
C. Amicus Curiae
D. Jurisprudence - A. Due Process
The term ________ refers to the political reform movement targeting women's right to
vote. Its roots have been traced back to 1820, but it wasn't until 1920 that the
Nineteenth Amendment provided women with voting rights.
Choose one:
A. Suffrage Movement
B. Minority Voting Movement
C. Universal Access Movement
D. Universal Right Interest - A. Suffrage Movement
________ is a theory of judicial interpretation that encourages judges to limit the
exercise of their own power. It asserts that judges should hesitate to strike down laws
unless they are obviously unconstitutional. It is sometimes regarded as the converse of
judicial activism.
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